Improvement in harvester-rakes



l. 0. DAVY.

Harvester-Rakes.

Ptenred Margh1o.1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGE.`

JESSE O. DAVY, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN vHRVESTEReRKES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,424, dated Marchl0, 1874; application filed November 24, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JESSE O. DAVY, of Springiield, Olarke county andState of Ohio,

have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Rake-Head orBeater for Grain- Harvesters, of which the following is a specieation:

The object of my invention is to raise the inclining uncut grain, and toprevent the cut grain from falling or being blown in various directionswhen cut, and also to deposit the same in symmetrical and even sheaves,thus greatly facilitating the binding, and saving labor in binding andhandling the sheaves. To this end it consists in the arrangement andcombination of devices, as more particularly hereinafter described andclaimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forinin g partof this specification.

In the drawing, Figure l is a rear view of a rake-head with myimprovement attached; and Fig. 2, a cross-section thereof on line w m,Fig. l.

A represents a rake-headof any ordinary or approved construction, and ofwhich there are the usual number. a a a, Ste., are the ordinaryrake-teeth attached. To the head A I attach,

. by any suitable fastening, (shown at d,) a number of curved rods orngers, O, Svc. These Arods or fingers are preferably, though notnecessarily, elastic, and curved over and downward toward the front ofthe head, so as to enter the grain before the ordinary teeth a, as shownin Fig. 2. Their operation is as follows: As the rake revolves in thedirection indicated by arrow y, Fig. l, these rods or lingers O enterthe. grain, iirst raising the inclining uncut grain, dividing and holding it in a proper position to the cutter-bar until cut, then guiding' itso that itfalls in a proper position on the platform; and when the teetha a commence to rake the cut grain up, the curved rods or iingcrs C, bytheir .curved ends, prevent the grain from being thrown or blown otl theplatform in disorder, and hold it in a compact bundle, and so drop it tothe ground from the platform at proper intervals.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, isy The combination, with a rake-head or beater, ofthe curved fingers or rods G, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

Witnesses: JESSE O. DAVY.

AMos WoLEE, HERBERT H. GUMBACK.

